All of the Grade One’s are taking part in this on Friday the 18th of May.
All children will need to bring a small plate of food to share and a gold coin donation.
All proceeds raised will go to The Cancer Council.
This week the children (and Miss Hunichen) have really enjoyed hearing One Direction as our bell music! We all love to have some fun and have a bit of a sing and dance when we hear them. So that you all know the words I have found a video for each of their hit songs with lyrics you can learn!!
This Friday the 18th May 2012 is National Walk Safely to School Day. We are inviting our school community to walk, ride or skate/scoot all or part of the way to school. The crossing at Chessy Park Dve will be supervised. Fruit will be handed out at the canteen to students as they arrive to school.
Please remember this is about being safe.
If you are riding, scooting or skating remember to wear your helmet.
If you are walking, riding, scooting or skating remember to Stop, Look, Listen, Think before crossing the road
• stop one step back from the kerb
• look and listen for traffic
• decide whether it is safe to cross
• keep looking and listening during the crossing.
Happy Mothers Day to all our mums.The children were asked on Friday what makes their mum special and why they love their mums. These were their responses:
I like it best when you…
On Friday the 11th of May, The Drama Toolbox came to visit the Grade Ones. Each class got to participate in an hour workshop called “Dinosaurs” with the very wonderful Amy- a skilled drama specialist. With beautiful costumes and delightful music, the children were able to become a dinosaur and explore the environment around them. With Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pteranadon, Stegosaurus, Brontosaurs and Triceratops costumes, children used dramatic techniques and movement to create a dinosaur spectatular. Children explored the dinosaur life cycle through nest building, egg hatching, living in a herd and searching for new habitats. They rolled in the mud, drank from the waterfall and looked for food.
Today the children learnt all about what the earth looked like when the dinosaurs roamed the land.
The important things we wanted them to learn were:
1/ Originally there was one giant supercontinent called Pangea
2/ Pangea broke up into Gondwanaland and Laurasia during the Jurassic Period
3/ Gondwanaland and Laurasia broke up into the continents we have today during the Cretaceous period
4/ The weather was very different during each of the dinosuar time periods
Have a look at the table below and see what else you can tell me about the different time periods!
Click on the link below to watch a video that shows the changing earth!
This week the children were introduced to the concept of alliterations when we read a book called ‘Dinosaur Days’.
Alliteration refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases, for example:
Raging Rhinos roast red raspberries rapidly.
The children worked really hard to come up with a clever alliterative sentence that included their name. Have a look at their beautiful posters below.
Today we started learning all about syllables.
Syllables are ways to split words into speech sounds. We naturally say words using syllables, but we don’t usually think about it until we need to separate the syllables for reading or spelling purposes.
When we learn to read, and as we encounter more difficult words, we may need to decode a word. You’ll often hear someone telling a reader to “sound it out” or “break the word into parts.” When we do this, breaking the word into syllables can help us read the word. Here are a few examples:
word- one syllable, word
spelling- two syllables, spell/ing
computer- three syllables, com/pu/ter
Breaking a word into syllables can also help when we learn to spell new words. tiger- two syllables, ti/ger
Have a look at the following games and videos on syllables for some extra practise!
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary_games/syllables.html
This week the children have been very busy during maths sessions. They have been learning all about graphing!
They learnt how to create a graph by taking a tally, giving their graph a title, knowing what each axis should show and how to interpret information shown on a graph.
We graphed all sorts of different things from eye colour and hair colour to Smartie colours and jelly bean colours. We also graphed the characters on the back of the Smarties packets.
On Wednesday this week the children were treated to a visit from Joe Grbac. Joe works out of Kyenton police station and has been a police officer for many years. He loves visiting children in schools and teaching them the important points of being a police man. He was very entertaining to listen to and had the children in fits of laughter for most of it! The children enjoyed looking at the police cars Joe brought with him and also tested out the ‘comfortable’ seats in the back of the divvy van.
